Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-29
WOOL SECURING.
What 8 aEan With Practical Experience
HaV TO Say on Iho Subject.

What 8 AEan With Practical Experience
HaV TO Say on lho Subject.
A citizen of Fort Worth who has takel
3 great interest in the wool securing pro
ject, has received the following lettel
from friend at Baird who understand!
the business. He permitted THE GA
zETTE to publish it insfulI:
BAIRD, Ten, June p, 1887.
| Mr.. -, Fort Worth, Tex:
In answer to yours asking my opinion
if it is practicable to scour wool in Fort
Worth, also to pull wool from pelts, !
am free to say that it is. In the first
place you have abundance of free water
suitable for both purposes. The average
shrinksge Of Texas woods is 66S per cent.
BY securing our Wools a. home there
would be saving in freights alone
| Of Sc the cost of shipping
il the grease that saving
would pay the expenses of securing the
wool New England securing mills
charge from l to DC per pound, so you
would have the advantage of 66 2-5C peT
pound over the eastern scourers. The
process of cleansing wool is simple; the
only skilled laborers required arepracticat
assorters, the woods must be properly
assorted as there are mady different sorts
of our Texas woods. These different
sorts are sold to wooden mills for
different purposes. One mill will
require our fine twelve-months'
woods, and other mills would want
medium clothing, and so on. The buyer
could get Just such woods as his mills
require, and therefore could afford to pay
full values. l have tested the Fort Worth
artesian wster and find it admirably
adapted for securing and pulling pur-
poses. My experience in pulling wool in
Texas has been very satisfactory, having
personally superintended the pulling of
over $4,000 pelts at this place. L
am well satisfied that at such q
place as FortWorth with her msny railroad
connections there could be q thriving
business built up in both of these branches
of industry. l control in this state the
exclusive right 10 use one of the best
known processes of pulling wool from
peltS. 1t does not require skilled labor
for pulling-CommOn labOrers can be
taught in g short time to do the work
effectively. TIC establish these branches
of industry 81 Fort Worth would be to
make Fort Worth the wool market
of Northwest Texas. It would |
make Fort Worth the best pelt market in |
the state, as pulIers could we'll afford to
pay St. Louis prices (less freight for all |
the pelts IN the state; and, with your |
already established tanneres, hides and |
pelts would naturally find a market here |
in Texas. To establish securing mill |
and pulling shop at Fort Worth would |
tend to attract wooden mills to that place
one industry calls for another-and |
Just as soon as it is well established that
the artesisn water OF Fort Worth is
everything that is required for securing
capital will take hold and build
up wooden mills and other Industries.
Hoping that your city will very soon
enjoy the full benefits of all the natural
advantages she has, with her free and
abundant supply of water for manufsc-
turing purposes, her many railroads, en-
-erprising citizens and fertile lands,
healthy climate, ETC., l SIN very truly
yours, }. E WRIGHT,